Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school dropout who emigrated from England as a boy, Bond had come up the hard way, fueled by an insatiable drive to acquire, combine, take over. At 49 he was one of the richest men in Australia. He controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his holding company, Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd.: television stations, retailing, minerals and breweries around the world. He had even figured out a way of selling nonalcoholic beer to Muslims in the Middle East. Everything about him was on a large scale -- his ambitions, his capacity for risk, his appetite for publicity. Also...
...adoption. To his amazement, Nancy turned out to be a high school acquaintance. Gayle Beckstead, 55, who now works as a search consultant in Simi Valley, Calif., learned of a sister -- who hadn't been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle-class Beckstead with obvious envy. Beckstead recalls, "Her anger was, 'How come I was kept, and you were given away?' She saw the advantages of my life...
...Texas, where such tests have been mandatory since 1985, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying...
...talk on education did serve a useful purpose. National leaders discussed important issues such as adult illiteracy, a declining supply of teachers, and troubling dropout rates. Governors shared experiences on promising new approaches to education, such as administrative decentralization which would transfer power from bureaucrats to teachers. For his part, Bush vowed to cooperate with governors to increase flexibility and accountability in state education. Notably, Bush also pledged to increase funding for Head Start, a successful pre-school program for poor children, by $250 million...
...conference, however, was too little, too late for a man who promised to be the "Education President." Yes, the conference acknowledged that adult illiteracy is a problem, but what should be done about it and, perhaps most important, who will pay? Yes, we must decrease dropout rates, but how and when...